How to See What’s Hidden Behind a TinyURL

Applications for EducationAs I wrote recently, constructing excellent digital citizenship and cyber security skills is something that all of us ought to be assisting our trainees do. Revealing them little tips like this one to avoid clicking on suspicious links is among the methods that we can assist our trainees construct their digital citizenship and cyber security abilities.

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The technique is to add a “+” to the end of any TinyURL address in order to arrive on a safe TinyURL page that exposes what the original link was that got shortened. If you desire to click through to the destination or not, you can then decide.
If you wish to attempt this with a TinyURL, tinyurl.com/emkns9a8 will lead you to the page for the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp, but including a “+” at the end of that TinyURL will take you to the page where you can see the initial link without clicking it.

Ive tried the “+” technique with a bunch of other URL reducing tools and TinyURL is the only one besides Bitly that Ive discovered it to work with..
Whats the technique?

Recently I wrote
The trick is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A few people emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL reducing services.
TinyURLs..

The technique is to add “+” to the end of the Bitly URL to see whats behind it without clicking on it. A couple of individuals emailed me to ask if the that worked with other URL shortening services. If you see it in other places, it has actually been used without permission.

Heres a video summary of how to see whats behind a TinyURL without actually clicking on the link.

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